[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

Jamie JH Coates j.coates at sheffield.ac.uk
Thu Nov 15 06:20:12 PST 2018 

Hi Eleanor

My paper might also be of interest to you. It is an ethnography of a
particular viral moment among young Chinese people in Japan and how these
sorts of events might complicate our understanding of virality.

Coates, J (2017) ‘So Hot Right Now: reflections on virality and sociality
from transnational digital China’ Digital Culture and Society 3(2)

Cheers
Jamie

Lecturer in East Asian Studies
School of East Asian Studies (SEAS)
University of Sheffield

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Recent films:
Coates, J (2018) ‘Tokyo Pengyou’, Journal of Anthropological Films 2 see
http://boap.uib.no/index.php/jaf/article/view/1538/1319

Recent publications:

Mostafanezhad M, Coates J, and Coates, J (2018) ‘Journeys from the East:
The Geopolitics of Film Motivated Chinese Tourism,’ with Mary Mostafanezhad
The International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 6(3)

Coates, J (2018) ‘Ikebukuro In-Between: Mobility and the formation of the
Yamanote’s heterotopic borderland’ Japan Forum. 30(2)





On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 14:04, Matt Erlandsen <matt.erlandsen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> I'm sorry I don't participate much in this series.
> I'm currently researching on digital ethnography focused on migrants. If
> you had any specific text or author, particularly on methodology, that you
> think is a mist I would be very glad.
> Best regards.
>
> *Matt Erlandsen*
> *Estudiante Doctorado en Ciencias de la Comunicación*
> *PhD. Student of Communication Sciences*
> +56 (9) 8218-5055
> @matterlandsen <http://twitter.com/matterlandsen>
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>
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>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 10:12, Crystal Abidin <crystalabidin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > hello eleanor and internet friends,
> >
> > gabriele de seta and i guest-edited this series of short (~1,000 words),
> > friendly, academic blogposts on doing digital ethnography earlier this
> > year. the whole collection is forthcoming with an anthropological journal
> > as a special issue:
> >
> > 1) Private Messages from the Field: Confessions on Digital Ethnography
> and
> > Its Discomforts
> > by crystal abidin + gabriele de seta
> >
> >
> https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/19/private-messages-from-the-field-confessions-on-digital-ethnography-and-its-discomforts/
> >
> >
> > 2) A Digital Bermuda Triangle: The Perils of Doing Ethnography on Darknet
> > Drug Markets
> > by alexia maddox
> >
> >
> https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/22/a-digital-bermuda-triangle-the-perils-of-doing-ethnography-on-darknet-drug-markets/
> >
> > 3) Somewhere Between Here and There: Goldilocking Between Fieldwork and
> > Academia
> > by crystal abidin
> >
> >
> https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/29/somewhere-between-here-and-there-goldilocking-between-fieldwork-and-academia/
> >
> >
> > 4) We Have Never Been Digital Anthropologists
> > by rebekah cupitt
> >
> >
> https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/03/we-have-never-been-digital-anthropologists/
> >
> > 5) Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
> > by gabriele de seta
> > https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/07/three-lies-of-digital-ethnography/
> >
> > + two journal articles from yours truly:
> >
> > 1) a mix of traditional & digital ethnography/fieldwork, on influencers
> and
> > social media selfies:
> > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305116641342
> >
> > 2) purely digital ethnography/fieldwork, on children on social media and
> > family influencers:
> > https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117707191
> >
> > happy guest lecturing! hope it goes well. and thank you for starting this
> > query so we get to collect fabulous examples from the crew.
> > /c
> > -----
> > Dr Crystal Abidin, PhD
> > wishcrys.com
> >
> > Lecturer, SCCA, Deakin University
> > Postdoctoral Fellow, MMTC, Jönköping University
> > Researcher, Handelsrådet
> > Adjunct Research Fellow, CCAT, Curtin University
> >
> > Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, 2018
> > Pacific Standard Magazine 30 Top Thinkers Under 30, 2016
> >
> > Recent publications:
> >
> >
> > *Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame
> > <https://wishcrys.com/microcelebrity-around-the-globe-emerald/>Histories
> > and Cultures of Emoji Vernaculars
> > <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/607/showToc
> >**Internet
> > Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online
> > <https://wishcrys.com/internet-celebrity-emerald/>*
> >
> > *Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the
> > memification of student issues
> > <
> >
> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1437204?scroll=top&needAccess=true
> > >*
> >
> > <https://wishcrys.com/internet-celebrity-emerald/>
> > <https://wishcrys.com/microcelebrity-around-the-globe-emerald/>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 23:51, Glatt,ZA (pgr) <Z.A.Glatt at lse.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Devin,
> > >
> > >
> > > My favourite topic! I agreed that Hine, Nardi and Boellstorff are all
> > > excellent. As for article-length works that give a good feel for
> > > ethnography, perhaps:
> > >
> > >
> > > boyd, d. (2016). ‘Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing
> > > Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era’ in Hargittai and Sandvig (eds.)
> > > Digital research confidential: the secrets of studying behavior online.
> > > Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. pp. 79-103.
> > > https://www.danah.org/papers/2012/Methodology-DigitalResearch.pdf
> > >
> > >
> > > Burrell, J. (2009). ‘The field site as a network: A strategy for
> locating
> > > ethnographic research’. Field Methods. 21,2, pp. 181–199.
> > >
> > > Madianou, M. and Miller, D. (2013). ‘Polymedia: towards a new theory of
> > > digital media in interpersonal communication’. International Journal of
> > > Cultural Studies. 16 (2), pp. 169–87.
> > >
> > >
> > > I know you said you aren't looking for a piece about ethnography, but I
> > > found this piece incredibly useful for thinking about online/offline
> > > research:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hine, C. (2017). ‘Ethnography and the Internet: Taking Account of
> > Emerging
> > > Technological Landscapes’. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social
> > > Sciences. 10,3, pp. 315-329.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Zoe
> > >
> > > _________________________________________
> > >
> > > Zoë Glatt
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> > >
> >
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> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Peter
> > > Gloviczki <pgloviczki at coker.edu>
> > > Sent: 15 November 2018 12:28:41
> > > To: dproctor at gwu.edu
> > > Cc: air-l at aoir.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions
> > >
> > > Good morning, Devin and all,
> > >
> > > Christine Hine's work may be of help, especially her Virtual
> Ethnography.
> > > Tom Boelstroff and Bonnie Nardi are two other names that come to mind.
> > >
> > > Best wishes, Peter
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:25 AM Devin Proctor <dproctor at gwu.edu>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Eleanor,
> > > >
> > > > In the long tradition of shameless self-promotion, I think a piece I
> > > > recently published on scientific knowledge construction in Otherkin
> > > > facebook groups might work. It's geared toward an STS audience, but
> > comes
> > > > out of years of online ethnography. Here's the link:
> > > > https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/252
> > > >
> > > > Hope it helps,
> > > > Devin
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:08 AM Eleanor Marchant <
> > > > eleanor.marchant at csls.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Everyone!
> > > > >
> > > > > I have agreed to teach a guest lecture on ethnography for a
> friend's
> > > > > undergraduate research method course and I'm wondering if people in
> > > this
> > > > > group might have suggestions for a really great reading. I really
> > want
> > > to
> > > > > give them a reading that is itself an ethnography (rather than
> being
> > a
> > > > > piece about ethnography or how to do it), and that deals with some
> > > aspect
> > > > > of technology or internet and society, perhaps incorporating both
> > > online
> > > > > and offline ethnographic methods. Perferably something published in
> > the
> > > > > last 8 years to keep it contemporary. I have tons of favorite
> > > > ethnographic
> > > > > pieces in this vein, but the problem is most of them tend to be
> books
> > > > and I
> > > > > don't think you can get a good feel for these works by just reading
> > one
> > > > > chapter. So does anyone have suggestions about short readings,
> > > perhaps, a
> > > > > journal article, that fit the bill?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> > > > >
> > > > > Eleanor
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > >
> >
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> > > > >
> > > > > Tw: @ermarchant<https://twitter.com/ermarchant>
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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